Sure, the second baseman who has made this postseason his own personal playground had a couple of hits in Game 1 of the World Series Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium, but he saw his streak of six consecutive games with a home run come to an end in a 5-4, 14-inning loss to the Royals.

Murphy said he wasn’t as concerned with the end of his streak as he was with the loss.

“I’d rather win four straight ball games and not hit another home run,” said Murphy, who had two singles in seven at-bats. “We didn’t win a ball game and that’s all I’m interested in.”

Murphy was part of a lineup that didn’t score after Juan Lagares raced home on Eric Hosmer’s error in the top of the eighth.

“I’ll start with myself, the offense has to have better at-bats,” Murphy said. “Personally, there are some pitches I’d like to have back and I hope [Wednesday] I can capitalize on some of them.”

Instead of hitting doubles and homers, Murphy couldn’t make much good contact late in the game.

Asked which pitches he would like to have back, Murphy said: “The ones I fouled back. … All the [pitches] in the middle that ended up in the stands.”

Murphy also struck out twice.

Earlier, Murphy looked ready to make an impact on the game.

His leadoff single in the fourth was the Mets first hit of the night against Kansas City starter Edinson Volquez and he moved to third on Lucas Duda’s one-out single to right.

He ended up scoring on a Travis d’Arnaud single to give the Mets a lead.
Murphy added another single in the seventh with two outs, but Yoenis Cespedes flied to left to end it.

With the Mets threatening again in the 11th, Murphy was left in the on-deck circle with Juan Lagares representing the go-ahead run at second and Curtis Granderson at first when David Wright struck out against Ryan Madson for the third out.

It was quite a change for Murphy, who was practically unstoppable against both the Dodgers in the NLDS and the Cubs in the NLCS.

Murphy was bound to cool off after finishing the first two rounds of the playoffs with seven homers and was 16-for-38 with 11 runs, 11 RBIs and a 1.462 OPS. He was named NLCS MVP and was hoping the long layoff between the four-game sweep against the Cubs and Tuesday’s Game 1 of the World Series wouldn’t impact his timing.

So if Murphy’s going to repeat his MVP performance, he will have to get to work in Game 2.